_Yurucare._ _Itene._ _Samucu._ _Chiquito._
Man, suñe, huatiki, { vairiguè, } ñoñich.
{ nani, H., }
Woman, yee, tana, { yacotea, } paich.
{ cheke, H., }
Sun, puine, mapito, yede, anene, zuuch.
Moon, subi, panevo, etosia, vaach, paas.
Fire, aima, iche, pioc, pee.
Water, sama, como, yod, tuuch.
Head, dala, mahui, yatodo, taanys.
Eye, tanti, tauté, to, yedoy, nosuto.
Ear, meye, iniri, yagorone, { nonemasu,
{ umapus.
Mouth, pile, ai.
Nose, unte, yacunachu, iña.
Tongue, otu.
Tooth, sansa, oo.
Hand, bana, uru, ymanaetio, { panaucos,
{ ees, H.
Foot, te farafka, irie, pope.
House, { vive, techte, } poo.
{ siba, }
1, lecia, lecca, chomara, etama.
2, lasie, gar.
3, libi, gaddioc.
4, lapsa.
5, cheti.
The variety of stocks on the Bolivian highlands is clearly shown by the
vocabularies on this and the following page. I have taken them from the
D’Orbigny MSS., in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, the collections
of Hervas, and the papers of E. Heath in the _Kansas City Review_,
1883. I have not been able to connect any one of the eight tongues
with any other, although each has some words which have been borrowed
from others or from some common stock. Thus, the Yurucare _suñe_, man,
Mosetena _zoñi_, Chiquito _ñoñich_, are too similar not to be from the
same radical. It must be remembered that the Chiquito was adopted by the
missionaries as the general language for instruction, and other tribes
were persuaded to learn it whenever possible. Thus some of its words came
to be substituted for those originally familiar to the speakers.
The Chiquito and the Yurucare are the only tongues of the eight given
of which I have found satisfactory grammatical notices; and that of the
latter is still unpublished (see _anté_, p. 297).